Camp Casey

After I got two coats of stain on the future office floor, we set up trundle beds like so:

Notice the amount of floor space given over to her highness (i.e. round bed is hers). Despite which she had to join David on his bed this morning:

While workmen have been crawling all over the house for months, you can see much remains to be done. The workmen added two tiny bathrooms; rewired the house; replastered walls where the plaster was unsound; removed a leaking, unused chimney; replaced an oil boiler with a gas boiler; replaced whole sections of bad plumbing; added a dormer window; added two windows and French doors in the kitchen; added all new radiators; repaired broken tiles; and repaired bits of moulding that were missing after removing a built-in wardrobe and the chimney.
What's left: refinish wood floors. Two rooms down, one room and hallways/stairs to go. Strip, spackle, clean and paint all walls. Clean and paint all trim (there's lots of trim). In two weeks time we get a kitchen. In the meantime, we've set up a makeshift kitchen in the conservatory. Here's David at lunch yesterday:

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